getting ready to perambulate

So why do I suddenly feel that the CIA will be taking over the interrogation of all dangerous prisoners?

Well, just at first blush, they don't get any mention in that little White House Directive that said the military would, after all, be following that Geneva Convention, and I don't doubt it. As a matter of fact, I imagine sometime in September or October that Guantanimo will be thrown open to the press and damn if the prisoners won't have their own little mosque and some decent grub.

Not too good, don't want to desert the base by offering dessert or even fruit cups, but hell, nobody ever got too upset by seeing a prisoner eat an apple.

"The Base", that phrase, ironically enough, is thrown around when discussing Republican attempts to hold onto their iron-fisted grip on power and it refers to the "values" voters who apparently believe posting the ten commandments in courts and keeping the gays from marriage is more proof of values than say, not torturing people and making sure that all populations in this country are served by decent health care and protected from the catostrophic economic effects of sudden sickness or injury (just to start...). Joe Lieberman is finding out the hard way that there's a new base, and like all dinosaurs he's big and ugly from the perspective of power to bear, but slow to react or act in any way that acknowledges that things have changed.

And the new base forming on the Left, half-in and half-out of the Democratic Party is willing to stake control of the Senate on this race because their support for the Democratic Party is so tepid that they're not too worried one way or the other who owns the power between the two parties.

I don't know if this is the wisest idea, perhaps letting the dinosaur huff and puff a few more years is equal trade to make sure that the Democrats can stamp out a good many of the Decider's decisions for the judiciary. Perhaps force some investigations and etc. Maybe they could spend a little less time voting against flag burners.

On the other hand, it's not like Hilary Clinton, that bastian of the Left Dinosaurs did anything but support that and Joe Lieberman is such a moron, and so distasteful, that sending a message of accountability to the politicos who have offices on the Hill might be nice; a hard slap to at least one of the hands held out for a hand-out from the deep chests of antithetical interests might be instructive.

And getting a politician on the Hill who rose in such a way might encourage more of a revolt elsewhere. Anywhere at this point. Here, in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, where I'm spending the month of July, things are just fine as far as most people are concerned. Water the lawn, mow the lawn, fertalize the lawn, that's pretty much the rhythm. Meanwhile, a child born 20 miles from here, in Chicago, is three times as likely not to see her first birthday and if she survives she is around eight times more likely to suffer from lead poisoning.